Dirty Peierls transitions in alpha-Uranium

Abstract

We point out that a recent model for the heat capacity of alpha-U that invokes CDW collective modes is unphysical. We show instead that the features in the heat capacity of both single-crystal and polycrystalline alpha-U can be accounted for by a number of Peierls transitions that are subject to increased disorder in the polycrystalline sample.

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